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brooke, thank you for doing this book. i am a retired english teacher, and i taught in california public schools, so i know about a multicultural classroom. i also recognize that when the -- [inaudible] is expected in the classroom, kids have an easier time to learn. my question for you is this, did you find in the schools in new york that students from the english-speaking caribbean who speak a kind of dialect were regarded as, um, positive students of the school? did you meet any of those students? >> guest: as, as what kind of students at the school? >> host: mindy, we didn't quite catch that. >> caller: oh, the students from the english-speaking caribbean who speak a dialect of english. >> host: a dialect of english. >> guest: a dialect. >> caller: were there any at your school? an english creole. >> guest: oh, yeah. well, there were kids -- a creole of english? the one that comes to mind, of course this area of brooklyn is full of people from the caribbean, but when you say a creole of english, the one that comes to m
brooke, thank you for doing this book. i am a retired english teacher, and i taught in california public schools, so i know about a multicultural classroom. i also recognize that when the -- [inaudible] is expected in the classroom, kids have an easier time to learn. my question for you is this, did you find in the schools in new york that students from the english-speaking caribbean who speak a kind of dialect were regarded as, um, positive students of the school? did you meet any of those...
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let me briefly introduce brook hauser. brook hauser has written for "the new york times," "los angeles times," among other publications and she's originally from miami, florida, and now lives in new york. francis flaherty has worked as a columnist and editor at "the new york times" for the past 17 years and is currently the deputy editor of the home section. is written for harper's, atlanta, commonwealth and the progressive. and his teaching journalism at the new york university. we will, just a quick housekeeping, please turn off your cell phones. as you probably seem, c-span booktv is filming the event tonight. for the q&a we'll be passing around a microphone, so if you could wait for the microphone to reach and then ask your question. thank you so much, and now please welcome brooke hauser and her book, "the new kids." [applause] >> so, as suzanne said we're here to discuss brooks new book, and it's about, just to give a summary, a high school in brooklyn called the international high school, which specializes i in the
let me briefly introduce brook hauser. brook hauser has written for "the new york times," "los angeles times," among other publications and she's originally from miami, florida, and now lives in new york. francis flaherty has worked as a columnist and editor at "the new york times" for the past 17 years and is currently the deputy editor of the home section. is written for harper's, atlanta, commonwealth and the progressive. and his teaching journalism at the new...
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let me briefly introduce brooke hauser. brooke hauser has written for "the new york times," los angeles times among other publications that she's originally from miami, florida and new york and then were full, massachusetts. she has her days at columnist and editor at "the new york times" for the past 17 years and is the deputy editor at the home section. he's written for harper's atlantic commonwealth and the progressive in teaching that we are university. just quick housekeeping. these turn up your cell phones and as you've seen coming c-span tv is so made the event tonight. further q&a, will be passing around microphones if you could wait for the microphone to riccio m.ed. bring you a microphone so we can record it. please welcome brooke hauser, author of the book "the new kids." [applause] >> so, as suzanne said we are here to discuss brooke's new book and it is about just to get a capsule summary come to the international high school, which specializes in advocate teams and broke spent much time at the school chronic g
let me briefly introduce brooke hauser. brooke hauser has written for "the new york times," los angeles times among other publications that she's originally from miami, florida and new york and then were full, massachusetts. she has her days at columnist and editor at "the new york times" for the past 17 years and is the deputy editor at the home section. he's written for harper's atlantic commonwealth and the progressive in teaching that we are university. just quick...
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and now please welcome brooke hauser. [applause] >> so suzanne said, we're here to discuss brooke's new book, and it's about just to give a capsule summary, a high school in brooklyn called the international high school, which specializes in the education of immigrant teens, and brooke spent much time at the school, chronicling a year in its life and the life of its seniors, and i wanted to -- brooke will do a reading of a portion later, but i wanted to ask a few little introductory questions. the first of which is, brooke, you're an experienced journalist. you've written a lot about hollywood and about film. this is a subject matter that is far afield from that. how did you come to this topic? >> actually, the person who led me to the international school is in the audience, his name is ronny saja, and he we went to come together and he was working at the international rescue committee, which is an agency that helps to resettle refugees across the country, and at the time his girlfriend lauren was interested in doing som
and now please welcome brooke hauser. [applause] >> so suzanne said, we're here to discuss brooke's new book, and it's about just to give a capsule summary, a high school in brooklyn called the international high school, which specializes in the education of immigrant teens, and brooke spent much time at the school, chronicling a year in its life and the life of its seniors, and i wanted to -- brooke will do a reading of a portion later, but i wanted to ask a few little introductory...
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he singled out congressman brooks. without hesitation speaker o'neill looked at the president and responded this would be the worst thing you could do particularly with a fellow like brooks. jack doesn't get mad. he gets even. you don't even know if your throat is cut until you turn your head. that didn't scare carter. after his encounter with brooks carter just reached out to republicans who were more favorably disposed to the plan because it promised to reduce big government. carter the news republican votes he had to win enough democratic votes and obtain a coalition to pass the measure. democrats were scared by the point of looking like opponents of government efficiency so more moved closer to carter's position. one month after the election congress passed the measure carter wanted an even brooks went along with the bill with one minor concession that the administration gave him. the institutional as asian of human rights also generated excitement among many americans who had been disillusioned by the cynical poli
he singled out congressman brooks. without hesitation speaker o'neill looked at the president and responded this would be the worst thing you could do particularly with a fellow like brooks. jack doesn't get mad. he gets even. you don't even know if your throat is cut until you turn your head. that didn't scare carter. after his encounter with brooks carter just reached out to republicans who were more favorably disposed to the plan because it promised to reduce big government. carter the news...
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you're on with david brooks. >> caller: hello, mr. brooks. thank you very much for c-span. thanks for "in depth" for taking my call. i would like to mention i'm a proud american. of course, naturalized citizen of america. i'm an american by choice. and i'm proud of it. actually, i have one comment. and my comment is related to mr. brooks' -- just a while ago he mentioned about the booming economy dealing with the president in a good economy in good times. in the united states and the rest of the world enjoyed. and i admire president clinton and, of course, i admire speaker gingrich, both are great americans and great servants of this country, and it was a great economy. if you look at "in depth" and this program and the reason for this booming economy was actually superficial, superficially it was arranged. the first season was the booming -- was a dot.com bubble which burst within a few years. and the second reason for this booming economy during that time that we see the effect of right now is the booming real estate and housing, which was artificially created. and so, th
you're on with david brooks. >> caller: hello, mr. brooks. thank you very much for c-span. thanks for "in depth" for taking my call. i would like to mention i'm a proud american. of course, naturalized citizen of america. i'm an american by choice. and i'm proud of it. actually, i have one comment. and my comment is related to mr. brooks' -- just a while ago he mentioned about the booming economy dealing with the president in a good economy in good times. in the united states...
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i think that holds. >> thank you so much to brooke and friends transpiring conversation with brooke will be signing copies of her book and you can purchase up front and she will be right of revers siding and we will play a movie. say some things so you know what it is about. [talking over each other] >> this is a video that diana castro made for the class of 2011 graduation ceremony and it is just kids goofing around but it is really fun so we will play that. >> oh, we will play some music that you have to pretend you are 18 to really get into it. it is an international high school prom mix so you hear some chinese and mandarin and hip-hop, bengali, lady gaga, ten your problem. [applause] >> brooke hauser working from new york city. visit the author's website, brookehauser.com. >> there is much more to the newly designed c-span.org. more video with 11 video choices making it easier to watch events. more features scheduled on the network layout that you can quickly squirrel for all the programs on the c-span network can receive an e-mail alert when your program is scheduled to air. more a
i think that holds. >> thank you so much to brooke and friends transpiring conversation with brooke will be signing copies of her book and you can purchase up front and she will be right of revers siding and we will play a movie. say some things so you know what it is about. [talking over each other] >> this is a video that diana castro made for the class of 2011 graduation ceremony and it is just kids goofing around but it is really fun so we will play that. >> oh, we will...
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the answer but murdoch way rebecca brooks. so for 21 years you have a culture of illegality of phone hacking and feeling with expenses expenses if you like has gone on under rebecca brooks. so what we have is a future prime minister cozying up and being molded by their criminal in chief, the association, cam and selection is based on criminality. and that is why i was so excited when i first met davis. that's were i'm going to stick my surveillance van outside of rebecca brooks house because fundamentally, what a great story. james didn't care when all kind of scheming how they're going to try and make cameron into the next prime minister. and if rebecca broke ends up going to jail for the things that she did and which helped cameron become prime minister at that well, this is my watergate. i thought of going to bring down the government. i didn't mean to bring down "news of the world." that was a shot that are not send around a closer. but i do think i'm entirely responsible for the reopening of the investigation, which led t
the answer but murdoch way rebecca brooks. so for 21 years you have a culture of illegality of phone hacking and feeling with expenses expenses if you like has gone on under rebecca brooks. so what we have is a future prime minister cozying up and being molded by their criminal in chief, the association, cam and selection is based on criminality. and that is why i was so excited when i first met davis. that's were i'm going to stick my surveillance van outside of rebecca brooks house because...
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brooks and other people were there any mention of the bskyb bit? >> as rebecca brooks said yesterday in parliament there was never a conversation that could have been held in front of the select committee. he asked me to answer the question. perhaps he will now be transparent as he was culture secretary about all of the contacts he has had with the news international over the years. i set out the clearest possible position. it is now others to do the same. >> jay swenson. >> thank you, mr. speaker. in light of ms. brooks revelation business how cozy and close the relationship was between news international and tony blair and murdoch's secret back door meetings at number 10 in the last and present governments, does the prime minister agree that the those governments have been so reluctant to act in response to the 2003 recommendations, the 2006 information commissioner report and last year's mp's for a judiciary inquiry for phone hacking. >> people shouldn't shout the honorable lady she may give a very fair point and it doesn't reflect well on eithe
brooks and other people were there any mention of the bskyb bit? >> as rebecca brooks said yesterday in parliament there was never a conversation that could have been held in front of the select committee. he asked me to answer the question. perhaps he will now be transparent as he was culture secretary about all of the contacts he has had with the news international over the years. i set out the clearest possible position. it is now others to do the same. >> jay swenson. >>...
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and my character, brook chandler, is one of them. and there's a feeling generally that one of the aftereffects of 9/11 was an infuse of talent into the agency which wouldn't otherwise be there. eventually, it all came together, al-qaeda, my interest in the intelligence world and, hence, "the devil's light." >> a reminder, you're listening to the commonwealth club of california radio program. we're talking with best-selling author richard north patterson about his book, "the definitely's light." -- "the devil's light." let's take a question from the audience, but before we do that, the characters say a lot of things that i don't think people, politicians and others could ordinarily say for public consumption. one of them, for example, is, um, you have people, cia intelligence people saying, you know, al-qaeda, they're a good organization, you know? tactic wise, you know? >> right. >> they're full of brilliant people. and, in fact, one of them -- i forget the name -- essentially called osama bin laden a genius. now, one question from t
and my character, brook chandler, is one of them. and there's a feeling generally that one of the aftereffects of 9/11 was an infuse of talent into the agency which wouldn't otherwise be there. eventually, it all came together, al-qaeda, my interest in the intelligence world and, hence, "the devil's light." >> a reminder, you're listening to the commonwealth club of california radio program. we're talking with best-selling author richard north patterson about his book, "the...
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brooks, politico pro. i listened to you guys talk about the market and having lived through a couple of huge market failures, i wonder where does the public interest come in this? should at&t be required to make my iphone work in manhattan? should time warner be required to, you know, in the broadcast world come up with the indecency, comply with indecency? where does that come from? where does the public interest in all of this about how great the market is? >> i think, everything we've been talking about today has been about the public interest, you know, driving the american economy, driving innovation, driving job creation. so this has been a discussion about the public interest. on, you know -- to say something about iphones in new york, i will tell you a lot of the spectrum discussion has been about -- and i think randall can elaborate on that. on decencies, we've got litigation that's addressing that issue in court and we'll have to fight that litigation and see how it's resolved. >> i think the fre
brooks, politico pro. i listened to you guys talk about the market and having lived through a couple of huge market failures, i wonder where does the public interest come in this? should at&t be required to make my iphone work in manhattan? should time warner be required to, you know, in the broadcast world come up with the indecency, comply with indecency? where does that come from? where does the public interest in all of this about how great the market is? >> i think, everything...
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brooks lying yesterday when she said it was the chancellor's bright idea to hire andy coulson? >> the chancellor has many bright ideas and the chancellor and i discussed many things but in the end i never seek to shuffle off my responsibilities. this was my decision. i'm accountable for it. >> mr. speaker, one of the leader of the opposition charges in his statement was the reason the commissioner didn't tell the home secretary or the prime minister about the appointment of neil wallace because of the position of andy coulson. the right member said that when he was the home secretary he wasn't informed about that appointment. isn't that rather bad to leave it -- >> even from nigeria i was able to follow the home secretary's excellent statement where she made precisely this point referring to what the former home secretary has said. so i do think it rather blows away part of his very flimsy case. >> sheila gilmore. >> thank you, mr. speaker. from the time i was elected to this house, i've had constituents contact me about the bskyb takeover and their concerns with it. in this ea
brooks lying yesterday when she said it was the chancellor's bright idea to hire andy coulson? >> the chancellor has many bright ideas and the chancellor and i discussed many things but in the end i never seek to shuffle off my responsibilities. this was my decision. i'm accountable for it. >> mr. speaker, one of the leader of the opposition charges in his statement was the reason the commissioner didn't tell the home secretary or the prime minister about the appointment of neil...
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brooks, for taking phone calls today. you're very generous of your time. >> guest: thank you. >> caller: you're aware of tom brokaw's book, "greatest generation"? >> guest: yes. >> caller: i'm going to argue the greatest generation gave birth to the baby boomers who are really the most selfish generation. these are the uber consumers, the people who demand immediacy and perfection. and have grown into those mcmansions and one of the things that i would take small issue with when you use the word "we" paying for social security and medicaid. why can't we blow the caps off on our aid contributions and blow the caps on medical saving accounts contributions to 10,000, $20,000 and encourage a savings economy so that people don't have to be dependent on government. not everyone. not everyone. there will be a percentage that will need that. but we shouldn't lump everybody into that. and could you just off the top -- i'll take your answer off the air, could you just address a little bit about the central bankers activities now in
brooks, for taking phone calls today. you're very generous of your time. >> guest: thank you. >> caller: you're aware of tom brokaw's book, "greatest generation"? >> guest: yes. >> caller: i'm going to argue the greatest generation gave birth to the baby boomers who are really the most selfish generation. these are the uber consumers, the people who demand immediacy and perfection. and have grown into those mcmansions and one of the things that i would take...
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brooks? >> guest: i have no formal relationship although he has been a friend and mentor of mine one nice thing about the book with the issues of poverty how we help poor people of one to write a book that would connect to a broader array of individuals and organizations that work in the area of many of those are nonprofit and to understand how critical this sector is to the work that we do to provide invaluable os -- the structures. >> host: you are professor at university of chicago. those that have celebrated the 100 year one year ago we hope to train those over the course of a career and i teach courses on the history of the welfare state and also this spring in teaching a course for nonprofit to connect students to emerging strategies for more effective the program. >> would drew you to the social service sector? >> >> my dad lost his job and did not have a college degree it was hard for him to find work and i had social welfare policy and the content connected with me and i felt i could
brooks? >> guest: i have no formal relationship although he has been a friend and mentor of mine one nice thing about the book with the issues of poverty how we help poor people of one to write a book that would connect to a broader array of individuals and organizations that work in the area of many of those are nonprofit and to understand how critical this sector is to the work that we do to provide invaluable os -- the structures. >> host: you are professor at university of...
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along with former news international executive rebeckah brooks. they testify at a british parliamentary committee about allegations on phone-hacking and police bribery at the british tabloid. that is live at 9:30 a.m. eastern on c-span3 >> now bbc "newsnight"'s coverage of aldations of -- allegations at rupert murdoch's british tabloid, "news of the world". this is almost an hour. >> tonight scotland yard in turmoil. another resignation of the top. police biggest casualty of the phone-hacking scandal. assistant commissioner john yates follow his boss's example quits more in anger than in sorrow. >> there continues to be a huge amount of inaccurate, ill-informed and on occasion down right malicious gossip being published about me personally. >> another bizarre twist tonight. sean hoare the initial "news of the world" whistle blower is found dead. david cameron cuts short of visit to africa. >> i'm determined to get to the bottom of it. >> tonight we examine the damage he is suffering and the state of the met. then we'll talk about that committee he
along with former news international executive rebeckah brooks. they testify at a british parliamentary committee about allegations on phone-hacking and police bribery at the british tabloid. that is live at 9:30 a.m. eastern on c-span3 >> now bbc "newsnight"'s coverage of aldations of -- allegations at rupert murdoch's british tabloid, "news of the world". this is almost an hour. >> tonight scotland yard in turmoil. another resignation of the top. police biggest...
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it was in response to an article written by david brooks. and brooks, whom i respect very much, is a conservative but a very thoughtful man that i read with a lot of interest. and brooks had written about what to do with the state and federal challenges when it came to budget deficits. what these two minnesota state representatives said, democrat and a republican, is that we acknowledge in our state and nation what we face. we face a situation where we have a weak economy and we face a situation where the debts that are being incurred by our levels of government are going up too fast. and so having acknowledged that, we've got to find a solution. i'm going to probably not say this as accurately, but i thought they said it so well. they said we've come to the conclusion that we just can't cut our way out of the problem and we can't tax our way out of the problem. we've got to think our way out of the problem. we can't lurch from one budget battle to another budget battle without looking at the fact that our challenge is a structural long-term
it was in response to an article written by david brooks. and brooks, whom i respect very much, is a conservative but a very thoughtful man that i read with a lot of interest. and brooks had written about what to do with the state and federal challenges when it came to budget deficits. what these two minnesota state representatives said, democrat and a republican, is that we acknowledge in our state and nation what we face. we face a situation where we have a weak economy and we face a...
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and my character brooke chandler is one of them. there's a feeling generally that one of the after effects of 9/11 was an infusion of talent into the agency, which perhaps otherwise wouldn't have been the. eventually it all came together for me, the worry about nuclear terrorism, 9/11, al qaeda. my interest in intelligence world and hence "the devil's light" spent a reminder you listen to the commonwealth club of california greater program. we are talking with best selling author richard north patterson about his book, "the devil's light." let's take a question from the audience, but before we do that, i just want to say in your book, "the devil's light," the characters say a lot of things that i don't think people, politicians and others could ordinarily say for public consumption. one of them, for example, you have people, said a intelligence saying al qaeda, they are a good organization, tactic wise. they are full of brilliant people. one of them, i forget the name, one of them calls osama bin laden a genius. one question from th
and my character brooke chandler is one of them. there's a feeling generally that one of the after effects of 9/11 was an infusion of talent into the agency, which perhaps otherwise wouldn't have been the. eventually it all came together for me, the worry about nuclear terrorism, 9/11, al qaeda. my interest in intelligence world and hence "the devil's light" spent a reminder you listen to the commonwealth club of california greater program. we are talking with best selling author...
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brook chandler -- >> yeah. >> has to change his name. and the woman tops change her name and the characters, the militants who also have to change. these characters are almost from the same family but different -- >> there are certain psychological similarities between, you know, people on either side of the terrorism divide. if you're working undercover. the ability to lie and assimilate a whole alternative identity and be fine with that and to bring it off is not given to most of us. i dare say there's probably not a single person in this audience who could do it. i know i certainly couldn't. you know, psychologically there are certain -- including an incredible commitment to an extremely inconvenient life because to go undercover is to give up a lot. and i have brook early on talking about the cost of that life, which he's painfully aware. i was talking to a guy who was undercover who never did tell me his last name because -- that was not for me to know, but, you know, he's saying, you know -- and i have brook say this, more or less,
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royte there. >> brooks political. i listen to talk about the market and having lived through a couple of huge market failures. i wonder where does the public interest coming to this? should at&t be required to make my iphone work in manhattan and should time warner be required to as a broadcast world come up with the indecency, comply with indecency? where does that come from? where is the public interest about how great the market is? >> [inaudible] >> i think everything we've been talking about today is about the public interest. driving the american economy and innovation, driving job creation so this has been a discussion about public interest. randall had something say about iphone in new york, and i will tell you that a lot of the spectrum discussion has been about that and i think randall can he elaborate on that, there's not much to say we've got litigation that is addressing that issue in the courts and we have to fight that litigation. >> i think the free-market have worked quite well when you think of wirel
royte there. >> brooks political. i listen to talk about the market and having lived through a couple of huge market failures. i wonder where does the public interest coming to this? should at&t be required to make my iphone work in manhattan and should time warner be required to as a broadcast world come up with the indecency, comply with indecency? where does that come from? where is the public interest about how great the market is? >> [inaudible] >> i think everything...
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what's your relationship with aei or with arthur brooks? >> well, i don't have any formal relationship with aei. arthur has been a friend and a mentor of mine for many years. one of the nice things about this book is concerned with issues poverty in network and how we help poor people, and what i wanted to do was write a book that would not just connect to academic audiences, but to a broader array of individuals and organizations that work in this area. many of those are nonprofit, many of those are faith-based organizations, and arthur is an expert on the nonprofit sector and understands how critical that sector is to the work we do. and, you know, he provided invaluable insight and structure as i moved forward with the book. >> you're a professor here at the university of chicago, what department do you teach? >> just celebrated its 100th year a year ago, it's a school of social work. we train thousands of students to be practitioners and counselors, go on to serve millions of americans over the course of all their careers. i teach cours
what's your relationship with aei or with arthur brooks? >> well, i don't have any formal relationship with aei. arthur has been a friend and a mentor of mine for many years. one of the nice things about this book is concerned with issues poverty in network and how we help poor people, and what i wanted to do was write a book that would not just connect to academic audiences, but to a broader array of individuals and organizations that work in this area. many of those are nonprofit, many...
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brooks. the chief executive of the company and the senior personnel. >> he left the data for the day after allegations made originally about phone hacking. was that linked? what happened, how did he leave the company? >> that i don't know. that would have been at a time the news of the world better for you to ask him why did he resign? >> he resigned sadly last friday following saying i was in charge of the company during this period stepped out. >> did they ask to leave? >> they both asked to leave. >> why did you not accept the resignation when she first offered it? >> because i believed -- >> why did you the second time in? >> in the event she [inaudible] >> can you tell us how much of the characters have been paid off? how much the been given as a financial settlement on the news international? >> in the case it would be considerable to the service 5 million, 10 million? >> as confidential. >> any confidentiality in the pay off they are not supposed to speak of what happened or what they
brooks. the chief executive of the company and the senior personnel. >> he left the data for the day after allegations made originally about phone hacking. was that linked? what happened, how did he leave the company? >> that i don't know. that would have been at a time the news of the world better for you to ask him why did he resign? >> he resigned sadly last friday following saying i was in charge of the company during this period stepped out. >> did they ask to...
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thank you. >> thanks very much, brooke. and it's a pleasure to be at the white house with brooke and daniel poneman for event that doesn't involve a crisis but we usually meet in the situation room where the lighting is much worse, it's a much more restricted to a lot of coffee as i think one proof that might be major. i also want to suck it broke in welcoming some of the leading experts in washington and around the country in the area of energy security. john deutch and jane harman and john podesta are all leaders in national security and energy security, in particular. you may, if you haven't seen, you should look at john deutch, john podesta's 2008 article authored for the center of american progress which really lays out a lot of the challenges, and are way ahead. also with us today are the two leaders and the department of defense on energy security, schoenberg and i'm just going to be marking up with the very low retail, their ideas. but what i would like to talk about is the connection between innovation in energy te
thank you. >> thanks very much, brooke. and it's a pleasure to be at the white house with brooke and daniel poneman for event that doesn't involve a crisis but we usually meet in the situation room where the lighting is much worse, it's a much more restricted to a lot of coffee as i think one proof that might be major. i also want to suck it broke in welcoming some of the leading experts in washington and around the country in the area of energy security. john deutch and jane harman and...
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and brooke hauser said it was engrossing. so now i have my answer when they say what's your book about, i say, i wrote a thriller on the constitution. you can make your own judgment on that, but at least they don't roll their eyes. also, the subject was important, and as soon as any hole in the story of american history is identified, that's standing invitation for the likes of people like me to jump in and get to work. i had also heard or knew of, i guess, james maddison's statement in congress in 1796 that if you wanted to know the meaning of the constitution beyond its words, the place to go was not the records of the federal convention, which only proposed it, but the state ratifying conventions where the voices of the people breathed life into what was only a dead proposal previously. i later came to the -- i don't say much about the significance of that in the book. i came understand i'm a historian not a lawyer, i'll leave it to other to tieles out what legal implications but i knew it would be important and have audie
and brooke hauser said it was engrossing. so now i have my answer when they say what's your book about, i say, i wrote a thriller on the constitution. you can make your own judgment on that, but at least they don't roll their eyes. also, the subject was important, and as soon as any hole in the story of american history is identified, that's standing invitation for the likes of people like me to jump in and get to work. i had also heard or knew of, i guess, james maddison's statement in...
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brooks and her knowledge of those things has been clear. nonetheless those have been accepted, but it's important on the basis there is no evidence today that i have seen or have any knowledge of this there was any impropriety by them. >> the different, sir. you have repeatedly stated that news corporation has zero tolerance, is the right? >> yes. >> october, 2010, did you still believe it to be true when you made your speech and said what may be clear, we were to vigorously pursue the trade we will not tolerate wrongdoing? >> yes. >> if you are not lining then, somebody was lobbying to you, who was it? >> i don't know. that is what the police are investigating. espinel but he acknowledged that you were misled? >> very. >> let's take you back to 2003. were you aware that in march rebekah to brooks gave information to the committee? >> i am now aware of that. i wasn't aware of the time. i was also aware that she amended that considerably quickly afterwards. >> i think she amended it seven or eight years afterwards. did you or anyone else at
brooks and her knowledge of those things has been clear. nonetheless those have been accepted, but it's important on the basis there is no evidence today that i have seen or have any knowledge of this there was any impropriety by them. >> the different, sir. you have repeatedly stated that news corporation has zero tolerance, is the right? >> yes. >> october, 2010, did you still believe it to be true when you made your speech and said what may be clear, we were to vigorously...
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of the brookings institution. >> has been looking out for other people's jobs. and the same can be said for john sweeney, one of his predecessors, at the afl-cio. it is great to have you here with us this morning. and jim bolan of the bricklayers union. and the same statement i just made about those three gentlemen can also be made about john wilhelm, who is the president of unite here and very importantly one of our trustees at brookings and therefore one of my bosses. when i first met john, and that was, i calculated this morning, 45 years ago, he was hard at work organizing service and maintenance employees on a university campus about we were both hanging out at the time. having john on the brookings board of trustees and investigation president trumka on this podium this morning underscores our commitment here at brookings to the importance of having the voice and the perspective of organized labor as part of our national effort to come together and solve the jobs crisis, which is, it should be noted, not just a national crisis. it's also a global one. unem
of the brookings institution. >> has been looking out for other people's jobs. and the same can be said for john sweeney, one of his predecessors, at the afl-cio. it is great to have you here with us this morning. and jim bolan of the bricklayers union. and the same statement i just made about those three gentlemen can also be made about john wilhelm, who is the president of unite here and very importantly one of our trustees at brookings and therefore one of my bosses. when i first met...
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now please welcome brooke hauser [applause] [applause] >> so, suzanne so we are here to discuss brooks' new book. it is about, just to give a capsule summary, i school in brooklyn called the international high-school, which specializes in the education of immigrant teens. brooks spent much time at the school chronicling a year in its life and a life of its the use. i wanted to -- brooklyn to a reading of the apportionment later, but of want to ask a few introductory questions. the first of which is, your experienced journalist. you have written a lot about hollywood and the bell fell. this is the subject matter that is far afield from that. how did you come to this topic? >> actually, the present limit to the international school is in the audience. we went to college together. he was working at the international rescue committee, which is an agency that helps to resettle refugees across the country. at the time my girl friend was interested in doing some volunteer work with some of the students of the brides and to nationalize the oil. i heard about this school, and i became very inte
now please welcome brooke hauser [applause] [applause] >> so, suzanne so we are here to discuss brooks' new book. it is about, just to give a capsule summary, i school in brooklyn called the international high-school, which specializes in the education of immigrant teens. brooks spent much time at the school chronicling a year in its life and a life of its the use. i wanted to -- brooklyn to a reading of the apportionment later, but of want to ask a few introductory questions. the first...
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myler or rebecca brooks? >> mrs. brooks was certainly involved in the, in those activities. she was running the company until the summer of 2011. >> just going back to the transcript of julian -- [inaudible] on the 27th of may, it's already been read out largely by mr. watson. talks here about didn't believe culture in the newsroom, we've already had that discussion. how the investigation, were you made aware of the outcome of that investigation into those three individuals? >> i received throughout the period in 2009 onwards after the allegations came out in the newspaper, i received repeated assurances that internal investigations had been conducted, um, that they were thorough, that they concluded there was no evidence whatsoever of wider spread phone hacking, and this was something that was repeated, i know, to you, to this committee in 2009, and those are the same assurances that i was being given as well, also by the public statements, um, of the police at the time. >> um, further in that notice there's e-mail from members' staff, nothing is written about it. is it pos
myler or rebecca brooks? >> mrs. brooks was certainly involved in the, in those activities. she was running the company until the summer of 2011. >> just going back to the transcript of julian -- [inaudible] on the 27th of may, it's already been read out largely by mr. watson. talks here about didn't believe culture in the newsroom, we've already had that discussion. how the investigation, were you made aware of the outcome of that investigation into those three individuals?...
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if you go down the street to aei they will take the brookings controls this administration. we, of course, have done the opposite but it is nice every once in a while when he was government does comply with what works best for our timing. and, of course, we do have exquisite dining today. this is an included important issue. it is made even more so by the recent announcements. and our first panel is intended to cover the iran's side of this story. obviously, there are many sides to this story, but i think for all of us it does start with iran. iranians are forging ahead with their program, and we wanted to start by getting a sense of the lay of the land. what the iranians are up to, what they're thinking is, what it might take to stop them, how things are working in tehran, which will ultimately lead us to conversations later on in the day about what it is that we and our allies might do about it all. we have a sensational panel to start things off this morning. you all have the bios in front of you so i'm not going to give you lengthy bios. but just to give you kind of the
if you go down the street to aei they will take the brookings controls this administration. we, of course, have done the opposite but it is nice every once in a while when he was government does comply with what works best for our timing. and, of course, we do have exquisite dining today. this is an included important issue. it is made even more so by the recent announcements. and our first panel is intended to cover the iran's side of this story. obviously, there are many sides to this story,...
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. >> host: time for one more call for brooke hauser. her book is "the new kids." larry in atlanta, you're the last word. >> caller: just wanted to know from brooke, good book i read, whether all of the people were bilingual, and do they have the same requirements, you know -- [inaudible] >> guest: are the teachers bilingual? >> host: we got that part, larry, we got the bilingual part. what was the second half of your question? the a little hard to hear. >> caller: are the teachers, basically the same requirements that teach in a traditional city school in the new york city area? >> host: thanks, larry. >> guest: yes. the teachers have standard backgrounds, similar as you would find at schools in new york city and around the country. no, it's not a requirement to be bilingual, but many of the teachers are bilingual and trilingual and i'm not going to go there. [laughter] they speak, you know, some of them several different languages. and, of course, that helps tremendously. especially if you have a student who is one of the only students in school to speak his or h
. >> host: time for one more call for brooke hauser. her book is "the new kids." larry in atlanta, you're the last word. >> caller: just wanted to know from brooke, good book i read, whether all of the people were bilingual, and do they have the same requirements, you know -- [inaudible] >> guest: are the teachers bilingual? >> host: we got that part, larry, we got the bilingual part. what was the second half of your question? the a little hard to hear....
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john braca e-mails in to you, do you think that the reform conservatives -- david frum, david brooks, etc. -- will remain relevant in the age of the tea party? >> guest: i think they're irrelevant now. i think david frum would have to jump off george washington bridge to the get attention today -- to get attention today, and david brooks already has. that wonderful interview in the new republic where he said, generally, i know more about political philosophy and policy than anyone i sit down with. generally, i know more, certainly, about political philosophy. but when i sat down with barack obama, barack obama had been in the senate one month, but when i sat down with barack obama, he knew more about political philosophy and about policy than i did. i knew that. and then i looked down, and i saw the wonderful crease in his pant leg as he sat across from me, and i said to myself on the basis of a crease in his pants, mind you, i said to myself, this man is going to be president someday, and he's going to be a very good president. and i said to myself, i said, what if barack obama had b
john braca e-mails in to you, do you think that the reform conservatives -- david frum, david brooks, etc. -- will remain relevant in the age of the tea party? >> guest: i think they're irrelevant now. i think david frum would have to jump off george washington bridge to the get attention today -- to get attention today, and david brooks already has. that wonderful interview in the new republic where he said, generally, i know more about political philosophy and policy than anyone i sit...
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. >> host: what is your role at brookings institution? >> guest: and cfo and charles robinson share. i spent most of my time at the brookings institution and i'm involved in studying well-being and all kinds of dimensions and setting up a new initiative on well-being there. >> host: carol graham is the author of this book, "the pursuit of happiness: an economy of well-being" this is her second book on happiness. her first, happiness around the world. professor graham, thanks for being on booktv. >> guest: inks for having me. >> actor robert cummings written several topics on books during the civil war. what interested you in this topic? >> guest: my interest in the civil war is among the serious to me. if you told me many years ago when i was a girl this is what is going to study, i would've said i hate you. i hate war, hate guns. i don't like any of this. i don't like this topic at all. but when i was a graduate student in american history, happened to take a class on the civil war and something about it just clicked with me. in that top
. >> host: what is your role at brookings institution? >> guest: and cfo and charles robinson share. i spent most of my time at the brookings institution and i'm involved in studying well-being and all kinds of dimensions and setting up a new initiative on well-being there. >> host: carol graham is the author of this book, "the pursuit of happiness: an economy of well-being" this is her second book on happiness. her first, happiness around the world. professor...
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david brooks already has. the wonderful interview in the new republic where -- i know more about political philosophy and policy than anyone i sit down with. generally i know more about political philosophy. barack obama has been in the senate one month. when i sit down with barack obama he knew more about the political philosophy and policy than i did. then i saw the wonderful crease that he sat across from me and i said to myself on the basis of a crease in his pants, i said to myself this man is going to be president some day and he is going to be a very good president. and i said to myself what if barack obama had been wearing pantyhose? what would our friends say about that? they are not relevant anymore. then brooks went on to say barack obama was birkie and and he knew edmund burke very well. win you write for the new york times you can say any preposterous thing and will be taken seriously at least by the editors of the new york times, not by me. >> host: from "after the hangover: the conservatives' ro
david brooks already has. the wonderful interview in the new republic where -- i know more about political philosophy and policy than anyone i sit down with. generally i know more about political philosophy. barack obama has been in the senate one month. when i sit down with barack obama he knew more about the political philosophy and policy than i did. then i saw the wonderful crease that he sat across from me and i said to myself on the basis of a crease in his pants, i said to myself this...
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>> at the end of the day -- >> wasn't rebekah brooks? >> certainly not spent was it someone else out there news of the international? >> certainly not. >> it could've been someone at news international because you said you can't remember the? >> i said i can't remember but i do not believe. >> were you particularly close to the "news of the world" or news international? did your closeness, if you are close to them cause friction with press officers under your control's? >> i read that suggestion. which i am dismayed about to be honest. i placed stories with all sorts of papers and all sorts of journalist. >> were you placing stories, we giving preference to the "news of the world" in placing stories? >> certainly not. you would know different flavors and different interest. >> did you know mr. wallis' daughter worked at the met? >> i didn't until yesterday. >> and that was the first i'm? >> yes. >> mr. wallis' contract ended when? >> on the seventh of december, 2010. >> isn't not the case that he was offered another contract? >> yes. >>
>> at the end of the day -- >> wasn't rebekah brooks? >> certainly not spent was it someone else out there news of the international? >> certainly not. >> it could've been someone at news international because you said you can't remember the? >> i said i can't remember but i do not believe. >> were you particularly close to the "news of the world" or news international? did your closeness, if you are close to them cause friction with press...
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brooks said, no, put it back, and piers said, no, who cares. put it in the paper, which is what we did. .. so, you know, the normal things, kim may be for a spread and two or three for paid leave. we didn't pay her but because we didn't pay lagat 750 bonus for rubbing off the source of the story but we had a story already. that's why max kept useful for the story even though she takes a low cut. >> in the exchange for money. >> there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. i used to see if we didn't just have 15 speechwriters' we would have 1 million neither at the news desk news of the world all the time just salles victoria beckham what can say i need ten grand. that's not good. [inaudible] every few minutes. it is the british public that would supply us a vast majority of stories for money. it's what they wanted to read and that they gave to us to find the way to get in the paper. >> the next subject i would like to deal with this payment and i want to be clear to you i'm not asking you to tell me about anything that you personally might have
brooks said, no, put it back, and piers said, no, who cares. put it in the paper, which is what we did. .. so, you know, the normal things, kim may be for a spread and two or three for paid leave. we didn't pay her but because we didn't pay lagat 750 bonus for rubbing off the source of the story but we had a story already. that's why max kept useful for the story even though she takes a low cut. >> in the exchange for money. >> there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. i used to...
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dionne a senior fellow here at brookings. it is very good if you to come out and be with us and this is a very exciting survey. we have said a lot after 9/11 that we had a new normal that this had changed us in extraordinary ways and it is always in the survey that you are about to hear, more about, talks about americans attitudes 10 years later. we feel more safe marginally but we feel we have less personal freedom and less respect in the world but in many ways are halves we didn't change and indeed some of the divisions among us before 9/11 have only been aggravated. one of the things we will talk about a great deal are partisan and ideological splits that have spread from issues such as taxing and spending to issues such as what the meaning of religious tolerance is and where we stand on immigration and how we adapt to new groups. we will be talking a lot about generational divisions in the country. we will be talking quite a bit about immigration. i can't resist sharing g.k. chesterton's's observation that the united stat
dionne a senior fellow here at brookings. it is very good if you to come out and be with us and this is a very exciting survey. we have said a lot after 9/11 that we had a new normal that this had changed us in extraordinary ways and it is always in the survey that you are about to hear, more about, talks about americans attitudes 10 years later. we feel more safe marginally but we feel we have less personal freedom and less respect in the world but in many ways are halves we didn't change and...
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we expect him to be introduced by the head of the brookings institution. this is the associated press reports at this hour that the efforts continue at the nuclear power plant in fukushima. they are spraying the active nuclear units, and also at this hour, major foreign policy going on. number one, we expect to hear from president obama before his trip to latin america. he will be making a comment at the white house about libya and the no-fly zone that was authorized last night by the u.n. security counsel, so the president's comments coming shortly on c-span. ongoing now on c-span3, secretary of state, hillary clinton, talking about relations with latin america in regards to president obama's trip. here we are waiting for the japanese ambassador to the u.s.. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> this is the brookings institution in wa
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brooks said, no, put it back, and piers said, no, who cares. put it in the paper, which is what we did. .. so, you know, the normal things, kim may be for a spread and two or three for paid leave. we didn't pay her but because we didn't pay lagat 750 bonus for rubbing off the source of the story but we had a story already. that's why max kept useful for the story even though she takes a low cut. >> in the exchange for money. >> there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. i used to see if we didn't just have 15 speechwriters' we would have 1 million neither at the news desk news of the world all the time just salles victoria beckham what can say i need ten grand. that's not good. [inaudible] every few minutes. it is the british public that would supply us a vast majority of stories for money. it's what they wanted to read and that they gave to us to find the way to get in the paper. >> the next subject i would like to deal with this payment and i want to be clear to you i'm not asking you to tell me about anything that you personally might have
brooks said, no, put it back, and piers said, no, who cares. put it in the paper, which is what we did. .. so, you know, the normal things, kim may be for a spread and two or three for paid leave. we didn't pay her but because we didn't pay lagat 750 bonus for rubbing off the source of the story but we had a story already. that's why max kept useful for the story even though she takes a low cut. >> in the exchange for money. >> there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. i used to...
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>> well, he spoke to his editor who was rebecca brooks or piers morgan. apart from them having looked over my shoulder one, you know, just to see what i was up to for no particular reason, he would've never spoken to some of his lowliest. >> moving on to the topic of the theory of journalism, i understand this you have, for example, covered the gulf war. >> kosovo, yeah. >> immigration stories such as bank at. >> yeah, i spent a night and i think pretty well given up the investigative journalism about five years ago when i got hit in the head with a lump of concrete who are pretty intent on killing me. before that i smuggled myself across the channel just about about everywhere imaginable but then sometimes assisting. >> on the question of what happened to convicted, he wrote a controversial piece, didn't you, as part of the "news of the world" naming and shaming campaign? >> yeah, that was rebecca brooks good idea and was initially came into gregg kaminski's girlfriend to research and she couldn't find any. she went on to the library can be an avid liste
>> well, he spoke to his editor who was rebecca brooks or piers morgan. apart from them having looked over my shoulder one, you know, just to see what i was up to for no particular reason, he would've never spoken to some of his lowliest. >> moving on to the topic of the theory of journalism, i understand this you have, for example, covered the gulf war. >> kosovo, yeah. >> immigration stories such as bank at. >> yeah, i spent a night and i think pretty well given...
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i bundle up my manuscript and send it into gwendolyn brooks. all i knew this she won a pulitzer prize and was a poet laureate and was someone important. several weeks later i get a call. i am living with my parents and i get a call at home and does gwendolyn brooks called and she said you have to come and talk to me and i did. she was teaching at a college called northeastern university on the north shore of chicago. three buses to meet her and she was the most gracious individual you can imagine. she sat me in front of the big desk and scrawled across my manuscript in blue and red ink one day you will be a great writer. and she basically said look, i don't know what you intend to do with your life and don't know what you are interested in but you have a gift for writing and that is what you should develop. you should become a writer. that was the first time i had any inkling that there was a career that was possible for me in writing and that i could seriously think about doing but suddenly found the idea very compelling. that is where it star
i bundle up my manuscript and send it into gwendolyn brooks. all i knew this she won a pulitzer prize and was a poet laureate and was someone important. several weeks later i get a call. i am living with my parents and i get a call at home and does gwendolyn brooks called and she said you have to come and talk to me and i did. she was teaching at a college called northeastern university on the north shore of chicago. three buses to meet her and she was the most gracious individual you can...
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he's right to take the position that rebekah brooks should go. when the cloud hangs over, and with the defeat that we have seen, does he agree with me, he clearly does, that it would be wrong to expand their stake in the british media? and does he further agree that if the house of commons speaks with one voice today, and i hope he will so come to the debate, that rupert rupert murdoch should drop his bid and listen to the house of commons? >> i agree with what the right on gentleman says. i agree the house is speaking with one voice. the government has a job to do to act within all times of the law, and my righthand of the secretary has to obey every aspect of the laws. laws that were put in place by the last government. yes, as the honorable member says, we should look at amending the laws. make sure the fit and proper test is right. we should make sure the competition and enterprise is right. i think it is perfectly acceptable, one at the same time to obey the law that the business has got to stop the business of mergers and get on with the bu
he's right to take the position that rebekah brooks should go. when the cloud hangs over, and with the defeat that we have seen, does he agree with me, he clearly does, that it would be wrong to expand their stake in the british media? and does he further agree that if the house of commons speaks with one voice today, and i hope he will so come to the debate, that rupert rupert murdoch should drop his bid and listen to the house of commons? >> i agree with what the right on gentleman...
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let's see. >> hi, audrey singer from brookings. i have a question about demand and supply and how to measure these things. how do we understand the demand for workers? how do we measure it, and what do we know about international, you know, the international selection of workers into the stream? it's a bigger question about our economy. we're going through a restructuring right now. what do we know from the past, how do we understand demand at this point? big question, i realize, but i'm looking at lindsay. >> well, we don't. [laughter] we do look at certain kinds of indicators, levels of unemployment which in stem tends to be low. we look at wage change which has been low, and if demand for lawyers increases wages 30%-40% over a long period of time, why is it not changing stem earnings at all? why does it lag from other professions? what's the demand? we don't know. we do know one thing clearly is supply responds to wages. basically, if employers put their money where the mouth is, they will stimulate a supply, and so in a simple
let's see. >> hi, audrey singer from brookings. i have a question about demand and supply and how to measure these things. how do we understand the demand for workers? how do we measure it, and what do we know about international, you know, the international selection of workers into the stream? it's a bigger question about our economy. we're going through a restructuring right now. what do we know from the past, how do we understand demand at this point? big question, i realize, but i'm...
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i'm david brooks, we are here to review essays consistent writings written by irving kristol. irving kristol is not here, he died last year in september, we are joined by his son, bill kristol will need no introduction. anybody watching this, bill kristol grew up in new york. used to be my boss. went to harvard university. worked at the education department in quayle, and now editors a fine magazine where i used to work "the weekly standard." >> guest: well done. >> host: thank you. i thought we'd begin by talking about your dad's life. a lot of neoconservatism flows out of his life. i want to ask you about the upbringing. the social class that was raised -- what your grandfather did. because i think those roots involved a lot of his writing later on. >> guest: he grew up poor. he said he didn't realize he was poor. everyone was poor in his neighborhood in brooklyn. poor working class. my father, grandfather was employed as a jobber, tailer. fairly regularly employed. i think in the depression, he may have lost his job and had to start over once or twice. his father -- his mot
i'm david brooks, we are here to review essays consistent writings written by irving kristol. irving kristol is not here, he died last year in september, we are joined by his son, bill kristol will need no introduction. anybody watching this, bill kristol grew up in new york. used to be my boss. went to harvard university. worked at the education department in quayle, and now editors a fine magazine where i used to work "the weekly standard." >> guest: well done. >> host:...
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and mark mcclellan also from brookings. this morning's keynote address will be delivered by newt gingrich, former speaker of the house. he's in charge of the center for health transformation. there will be a number of different panels here today. the first panel will be on the impact of different reimbursement systems on innovation. we will hear from harvard medical school participant, someone from the american enterprise institute, and also a representative from pfizer. later on in panel two, opportunities to drive innovation with new payment policies. than the third panel of the day here at the brookings institution, issues in measuring innovation and value. things are expected to wrap up at the brookings at about 12:30 p.m. eastern. you are watching live coverage here on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> good morning. i'm the director of the schaeffer center for health policy and economics
and mark mcclellan also from brookings. this morning's keynote address will be delivered by newt gingrich, former speaker of the house. he's in charge of the center for health transformation. there will be a number of different panels here today. the first panel will be on the impact of different reimbursement systems on innovation. we will hear from harvard medical school participant, someone from the american enterprise institute, and also a representative from pfizer. later on in panel two,...
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i am strobe talbott of the brookings institution is my great pleasure to welcome you here today. and it is also a particular pleasure to be able to welcome our speaker, rich trumka. rich has devoted his entire repression alive to the labor movement. he is a third-generation miner, he spent 15 years as the head of the united mine workers union. in short, i think you could say that his job but low these many years, has been looking out for other people's jobs. and the same can be said for john sweeney, one of his predecessors that they afl-cio. it is great to have you here with us this morning and jim bolin of the bricklayers union. and, the same statement i just made about those three gentlemen can also be made about john wilhelm. he is the president of unite here and very importantly one of our trustees here at workings and therefore one of my bosses. when i first met john, and that was i calculated this morning five -- 45 years ago he was hard at work organizing service and maintenance employees on a university campus where we were both hanging out at the time. having john on th
i am strobe talbott of the brookings institution is my great pleasure to welcome you here today. and it is also a particular pleasure to be able to welcome our speaker, rich trumka. rich has devoted his entire repression alive to the labor movement. he is a third-generation miner, he spent 15 years as the head of the united mine workers union. in short, i think you could say that his job but low these many years, has been looking out for other people's jobs. and the same can be said for john...
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he will be speaking shortly here at the brookings institution. they had been holding and all the discussion about iran's nuclear program and proposed sanctions, and mr. donilon's comments and speech should get underway shortly, introduced by strobe talbott. spent the afternoon everybody. welcome to all of you. i'm strobe talbott. it's a great pleasure on have all my colleagues at the brookings institution, not just welcome you but to welcome tom donilon. as you know, times responsibilities our global. to wit, he has just come back and no doubt is fighting the jet lag still. from a nine day, three trip, three country trip to asia, during which he conducted, along with the president of course, numerous bilateral conversations i think touching on the relations between the united states and 23 other countries. his title features the words national security. and that means that there is particular focus coming from him and his office on the issue of how to prevent a proliferation of dangerous nuclear technology in general, and have to deal with the ir
he will be speaking shortly here at the brookings institution. they had been holding and all the discussion about iran's nuclear program and proposed sanctions, and mr. donilon's comments and speech should get underway shortly, introduced by strobe talbott. spent the afternoon everybody. welcome to all of you. i'm strobe talbott. it's a great pleasure on have all my colleagues at the brookings institution, not just welcome you but to welcome tom donilon. as you know, times responsibilities our...
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>> well, he spoke to his editor who was rebecca brooks or piers morgan. apart from them having looked over my shoulder one, you know, just to see what i was up to for no particular reason, he would've never spoken to some of his lowliest. >> moving on to the topic of the theory of journalism, i understand this you have, for example, covered the gulf war. >> kosovo, yeah. >> immigration stories such as bank at. >> yeah, i spent a night and i think pretty well given up the investigative journalism about five years ago when i got hit in the head with a lump of concrete who are pretty intent on killing me. before that i smuggled myself across the channel just about about everywhere imaginable but then sometimes assisting. >> on the question of what happened to convicted, he wrote a controversial piece, didn't you, as part of the "news of the world" naming and shaming campaign? >> yeah, that was rebecca brooks good idea and was initially came into gregg kaminski's girlfriend to research and she couldn't find any. she went on to the library can be an avid liste
>> well, he spoke to his editor who was rebecca brooks or piers morgan. apart from them having looked over my shoulder one, you know, just to see what i was up to for no particular reason, he would've never spoken to some of his lowliest. >> moving on to the topic of the theory of journalism, i understand this you have, for example, covered the gulf war. >> kosovo, yeah. >> immigration stories such as bank at. >> yeah, i spent a night and i think pretty well given...
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welcome to foreign policy at brookings. i'm the director of the foreign policy here. it's very good to see you all here in the dog days of august. but we thought that the topic of today's conversation was so compelling that it shouldn't until after labor day. we're here to talk about the foreign policy consequences of domestic political dysfunction in the united states. a subject that has been highlighted by the crisis of raising the debt ceiling and the impact that appears to have had on the brand america abroad, a brand that had already suffered some considerable tarnishing in the bush-era. something that president obama was determined that he would refurbish to enhance our influence abroad. but now things only seem to have gotten worse. and so we wanted to bring together some experts from brookings to talk about what's happening domestically and how that's impacting america's ability to promote and protect its interests abroad. let me introduce quickly the various panelists we have today. first of all, tom mann, who is the have a recall harriman and chair and fello
welcome to foreign policy at brookings. i'm the director of the foreign policy here. it's very good to see you all here in the dog days of august. but we thought that the topic of today's conversation was so compelling that it shouldn't until after labor day. we're here to talk about the foreign policy consequences of domestic political dysfunction in the united states. a subject that has been highlighted by the crisis of raising the debt ceiling and the impact that appears to have had on the...